Quote from: RakaiThwei on Aug 17, 2015, 11:46:38 PM
There is no pleasing people. You've got people who don't want the new Alien Sequel to ignore Alien 3 and Resurrection, but in that context.. not counting time travel, clones, synthetics.. how can the reconciliation of the sequels happen if Blomkamp wants to willingly ignore it? Then you got the folks who do want it retconned..
A multiverse doesn't need to be openly and explicitly stated. A lot of franchises have alternate canons but they don't state they are multiverses or alternative timelines. They're just different interpretive paths of pre-existing material. So I don't see any harm to the mythology if there is more than one canon.
To the naysayers, I don't see what you're seeing as bad. To me it just comes off as just simply "Because I don't want one." Nothing more, nothing less. And the whole hard realism sci-fi reasoning? Everytime I hear it, it peeves me a bit because I do not see it as a good enough reason.
Not everything fits.. it has to go somewhere and I know not a lot of us want a single thing to go to merely oblivion.
That was a pet peeve for me because by that logic, we might as well throw in some lightsabres and the Force while we're at it... I mean, those can easily fit. Let a Predator force choke someone. Because "hard sci fi" is not a good enough reason to not include telekinetic magical abilities.
The Multiverse thing does not fit BECAUSE this is a hard sci fi.
I am so glad Shane Black understands that this franchise is filled with so much rich lore, that he wants to expand on something existing rather than being lazy and going "lol nope, didn't happen, let's piss off a couple of fans and press the restart button!"
Why can't Blomkamp just use what's already existing? He can easily fulfil his childhood dream with a movie about Colonial Marines and another strong female character. We don't always need the almighty holy omnipotent Ripley... someone on this forum said how Predator relies on Alien for success, well Alien relies on Ellen Ripley (more like OVER-relies) for success... do you know how FRESH the air would taste once a well done Alien movie without Ripley comes out? (Don't get me wrong, I like Ripley. But too many encounters just goes way beyond mere coincidence...)
It's like Shane Black going "right, we're gonna bring back Dutch, Mac, Dillon and the goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus because WHY NOT?"
Can't they know that fans have this thing called a "headcanon", they like to cherry pick? Like you cherry pick your Yautja stuff over the Hish. And here's the beauty, you ignoring the Hish novels does not impact the larger franchise for you, it's not blatantly said "this is an alternative reality", it leaves it up to us to decide that and everyone is right in the end.
Some can incorporate Hish and Yautja, some can completely ignore the EU and just like the films and so on. Some like Predxeno and myself can enjoy a huge portion of the EU and imagine it as one singular universe with a detailed history.
This franchise has some good self contained stories, you don't like? Ignore. Don't need to be told it's alternative reality.
So what if someone doesn't like the new universe? Do they give up their fan badge and stick with the old and possibly discontinued stuff?
Or would it be better to focus on self contained and easily ignorable stories? And leave the films as a more important chain of continuity?
